Faith in God
“Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.”
“Have faith in God." - This is a nice memory verse for anyone who says: “I struggle to memorize the word of God.”
Oh my dear friend, if ever we needed faith, we need it now in the times we are living. Our trust must be in God and God alone. “What is faith?” you might say. Well, Hebrews 11:1 says:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
How do you get faith, Angus?
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17 Remember, without it, you cannot please God. Hebrews 11:6 - You can hear by how I am speaking, I am talking about my favourite subject today. Without faith, it is impossible to please Him and he who believes must believe that He is and that He is the rewarder of those who trust in Him.
Many years ago, I was sitting quietly in my prayer room and the Lord said to me, “I want you to take the word of God into Africa.” And I say: “Lord, I am listening.” Now, He has never spoken to me audibly, but in my heart. And I saw a picture of this big truck - an 80 meters long, 20 ton Mercedes Benz truck. 4x4 with a 40KVA lighting plant on the back which could light up a small village and a platform that wound down from the side. This truck had no less than 32 gears... That’s right, 16 high and 16 low range!
You must have a dream because if there is no dream, the people perish. You have to have a vision, and that was the vision God gave me. At Shalom, we have a saying: You must attempt something so big that if it is not of God it is doomed to fail. Why you might ask - Because when it works, people will say: "that wasn’t Angus or that wasn’t 'that person', that was God!”, God gets all the glory. I want to say to you this morning: follow your dream!
"For with God nothing will be impossible." Luke 1:37
So that is exactly what we did! I think we had R500 in our account when we started and by grace and faith alone, not faith in faith but faith in Jesus, the dream came to pass.
Follow your dream today. Take the word of God out, speak faith, eat faith and dream faith, then you will have it.
Have a wonderful day.
God bless you.